A Coach's Diary

Tim Elmore is one of the leading people in researching and studying the iY generation.  These thoughts came from a short story from his blog that you can find here.   Self-deception is the act or practice of allowing yourself  to believe that a false or invalidated feeling or idea is true. We all practice self-deception - seeing the world as adults for how we learned to see it as kids and not living in truth.  Or more damaging - seeing the world for how we WANT to see it and how it benefits us and not for what it really is. We grow up and learn within our small bubble - whether that bubble was picture-perfect in a house surrounded by a white picket fence or dodging bullets in the inner city on the way to school - and the real world is so much more complex than that.  The world isn't black and white - it's full of so much grey area in-between, and we often lie to ourselves because we either ignorant to truths or we ar...

The following article is from the first video of a 3 part series presented by Tim Elmore where he tackles the missing piece to career readiness among our  Generation iY population.   Generation iY is the second half of the millenials, and are those born after 1990. In this first video, he talks about the state of students today and why they are unready. You can see the video in its entirety here . Students have shown that they can master the classroom, but still aren't prepared for the work-room. They often come out of school with a high IQ but a low EQ, and they are often not prepraed for the level of responsibility or the workload. Artificial Maturity A big reason for students lack of success after school is due to what Tim calls 'artificial maturity.'  The students grow up, make it successfully through school, and think that they are prepared for the work-world when they really aren't. Students are savy enough to make it through school, but aren...